User-Centered Design (UCD) Contracts in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring User-Centered Design (UCD) skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User-Centered Design (UCD) over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 299 295
Rank change year-on-year +30 -4 -37
Contract jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) 66 98 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.57% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 65 109
10th Percentile £322 £325 £363
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - -5.57%
75th Percentile £634 £560 £573
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.41% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £88.50 - -
Median hourly rate £92.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £41.68 £47.50
% change year-on-year +38.57% -12.26% -26.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD) falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing User-Centered Design (UCD) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for User-Centered Design (UCD) in the UK excluding London

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User-Centered Design (UCD) within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -13 21 £600 +50.00% 143
Scotland 0 19 £525 +23.53% 23
Midlands +15 10 £410 -25.45% 97
Yorkshire +7 10 £556 +30.88% 51
North East +3 10 £650 +13.04% 23
North West -12 7 £575 +53.33% 69
South East +36 6 £650 +18.18% 167
West Midlands +18 6 £410 -36.92% 53
East of England - 6 £450 - 71
East Midlands +7 4 £436 -20.73% 38
Wales - 4 £319 - 18
South West +38 3 £500 -17.53% 61
User-Centered Design (UCD)
UK

User-Centered Design (UCD)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (12.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Adobe XD
1 5 (7.58%) Sketch
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.52%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.52%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.18%) AWS
1 12 (18.18%) Figma
2 9 (13.64%) SaaS
3 6 (9.09%) Azure
4 4 (6.06%) Google Analytics
4 4 (6.06%) IaaS
5 3 (4.55%) Google Data Studio
6 2 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.52%) GCP
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.52%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) SAN
1 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.55%) Tableau
4 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.52%) Metadata
5 1 (1.52%) Power BI
5 1 (1.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) JIRA
2 7 (10.61%) Git
3 4 (6.06%) ScriptRunner
4 1 (1.52%) Grunt
4 1 (1.52%) gulp
4 1 (1.52%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.52%) Mocha
4 1 (1.52%) Subversion
General
1 26 (39.39%) Public Sector
2 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Finance
4 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Legal
5 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Welsh Language
6 1 (1.52%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.52%) Local Government
6 1 (1.52%) Military
6 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (37.88%) Designer
2 15 (22.73%) Senior
3 12 (18.18%) UX Designer
4 11 (16.67%) Developer
4 11 (16.67%) Service Designer
5 10 (15.15%) Lead
6 5 (7.58%) Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) Senior Designer
7 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Product Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior UX Designer
8 3 (4.55%) Architect
8 3 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (4.55%) JIRA Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Lead Designer
8 3 (4.55%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Product Owner
8 3 (4.55%) UI/UX Designer
8 3 (4.55%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.18%) CSS
2 7 (10.61%) HTML
3 5 (7.58%) Alpine.js
3 5 (7.58%) Laravel
3 5 (7.58%) Node.js
3 5 (7.58%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (4.55%) React
5 2 (3.03%) RESTful
6 1 (1.52%) HTML5
6 1 (1.52%) jQuery
6 1 (1.52%) Middleware
6 1 (1.52%) Mustache
6 1 (1.52%) Play Framework
6 1 (1.52%) PySpark
6 1 (1.52%) React Native
6 1 (1.52%) Sass
6 1 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.55%) NHS
3 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Android
2 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.03%) Debian
2 2 (3.03%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (63.64%) Agile
2 28 (42.42%) User Experience
3 26 (39.39%) User Research
4 24 (36.36%) Service Design
5 21 (31.82%) UX Design
6 20 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (24.24%) Prototyping
8 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (18.18%) Project Management
9 12 (18.18%) Usability Testing
9 12 (18.18%) Wireframes
10 11 (16.67%) Analytics
11 10 (15.15%) CI/CD
11 10 (15.15%) Decision-Making
12 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (13.64%) Mentoring
12 9 (13.64%) Microservices
12 9 (13.64%) Roadmaps
13 8 (12.12%) Strategic Thinking
13 8 (12.12%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) Python
1 9 (13.64%) SQL
2 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.58%) PHP
4 4 (6.06%) Groovy
5 1 (1.52%) Java
5 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.03%) CSPO
4 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.52%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (30.30%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.58%) WCAG
3 4 (6.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (4.55%) GDPR
5 2 (3.03%) QA
6 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.52%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (9.09%) Adobe
2 4 (6.06%) Atlassian
2 4 (6.06%) Google
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.03%) VMware
4 1 (1.52%) Databricks
4 1 (1.52%) Genesys
4 1 (1.52%) Hotjar
4 1 (1.52%) Salesforce